When Amazon’s Project Kuiper enters Nigeria’s satellite Internet market in 2026, it will be tempting to frame its arrival as a direct showdown with Starlink. Both companies operate low Earth orbit (LEO) satellite constellations. Both promise high-speed connectivity beyond the reach of fibre and fixedwireless networks. Both are also entering the market at a time

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This is Follow the Money, our weekly series that unpacks the earnings, business, and scaling strategies of African fintechs and financial institutions. A new edition drops every Monday.   Nigeria has doubled revenue from the electronic money transfer levy (EMTL) tax after enforcing compliance on fintechs. The government is now moving to extend the same levy

Table of contents If you are buying Infinix phones in 2026, you are likely thinking about the durability and lasting performance.  What matters now is battery life you can rely on, smooth performance over time, and features that still feel useful months and years later. Infinix’s current lineup reflects this shift. The brand offers slimmer

Table of contents You are seeing more premium features in affordable phones, and Tecno is one of the brands making that possible. Tecno Mobile, a subsidiary of the Hong Kong-based Transsion Holdings, was founded in 2006 and has grown from entry-level devices into premium, foldable, and AI-powered phones. Tecno combines global technology with local needs

For more than a decade, Job Konadu, a 33-year-old electrical technician in Kumasi, Ghana’s second-largest city, relied on the country’s National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) for his medical care. For him, however, routine hospital visits often became a test of patience. “Sometimes you go to the hospital and stay in a queue for hours,” Konadu

GetEquity, a Nigerian fintech platform that functions as a digital marketplace for private capital, began in the venture capital boom in 2021. Its mission to democratise venture capital for everyday Nigerians felt not just timely, but inevitable. Retail investors filled a $50,000 startup round in an hour, and growth charts climbed.  But by 2023, the

The year is 2017, and Aisha Owolabi is in between Chemistry experiments with her coursemate, Ifeoma Amadi, at the University of Lagos.  She doesn’t know it yet, but that conversation would begin a different kind of experiment that has nothing to do with chemistry. One that would become an almost decade-long career in content and

If you ever need a fertility clinic, you wouldn’t need to do much research. IVF centres advertise on billboards. Surrogacy labs occupy premium real estate in medical districts. These are visible, accessible, and increasingly normalised parts of the healthcare landscape.  Now, try to find a specialist in chronic pelvic pain. Try locating a clinic that

South Africa’s Department of Home Affairs plans to roll out a national digital ID system before year-end, a move that could allow government departments to link their services digitally and improve public access.  The government announced the plan on Friday in Pretoria at a media briefing on progress under its medium-term development.  South Africa’s identity

Quidax, a Nigerian crypto startup, has discontinued its peer-to-peer (P2P) trading feature five months after introducing the service...